His inaugural committee improperly paid a bill incurred by his company

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By David A. Fahrenthold
Jan. 11, 2021 at 3:27 p.m. EST

President Trump’s private business failed to pay a $49,000 hotel bill incurred during Trump’s 2017 inaugural — and then, after the bill went to a collections agency, Trump’s nonprofit inaugural committee agreed to pay the charge instead, according to a new filing from the D.C. attorney general.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) had already sued Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee, alleging it had wasted donors’ money on an overpriced, barely used ballroom at Trump’s own D.C. hotel.

On Monday, Racine added an allegation to that suit. He said the president’s inaugural committee — a tax-exempt charity — had improperly paid a bill it did not owe, using nonprofit funds to pay a bill owed by a for-profit business ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-nonprofit-inaugural-committee-improperly-paid-a-49000-bill-incurred-by-his-company-dc-attorney-general-alleges/2021/01/11/18fdf6da-5427-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

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1. Oh oh, this will have legs.

And open the doors to the Campaign Slush accounts as well as the missing 26 million that was supposed to have gone to the Melanoma's Event Committee.